Sharon Machlis
Executive Editor, Data & Analytics
Sharon Machlis is Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at IDG, where she works on analyzing data (both for IDG Enterprise Web sites and journalism projects) and in-house editor tools in addition to writing and editing. Her tech interests include data visualization and analysis as well as the intersection of journalism and technology. She holds an Extra class amateur radio license and is currently somewhat obsessed with R. Her book Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism was published in December 2018.
Do more with R: RStudio addins and keyboard shortcuts
Speed up your R programming workflow with RStudio addins and customized keyboard shortcuts
Do more with R: Quick lookup tables using named vectors
Learn how named vectors give R developers an easy to use key-value pairs
R tip: Keep your passwords and tokens secure with the keyring package
Saving tokens and passwords in an R environment variable means they’re stored in an unencrypted, clear text file. With the keyring package, your credentials are more secure
R tutorial: How to import data into R
In this book excerpt, learn how to import data into R from spreadsheets, HTML tables, and more
How to add sparklines to R tables
When you want to visualize results in each row—such as when each row of data is a trend over time—you can do that inside a new table column with mini inline graphs called sparklines
Do more with R: Quick interactive HTML tables
See how to create an interactive table with one line of code (and the DT package). Plus, easy customizations
Do more with R: drag-and-drop ggplot
A new R package creates a simple graphical user interface for ggplot2—and it generates R code for the visualization you create
Reshape data in R with the tidyr package
See how the tidyr R package’s gather and spread functions work. Plus a bonus look at labeling in ggplot2 with the directlabels package
Alexa skill tutorial: How to write your first voice-assistant app
This step-by-step developer guide show you how to customize an Amazon Alexa skill to make your own directory or phone book
U.S. law allows low H-1B wages; just look at Apple
Apple's a great example of how the H-1B system can work, and where the visa goes wrong
Facebook open-sources its Prophet forecasting tools for Python and R
Prophet is aimed specifically at business problems, such as computer infrastructure capacity planning
Create your own Slack bots -- and web APIs -- in R
This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to find a current stock price, but the basic framework can be used for all sorts of data
Trump eyes end to an H-1B system that favors largest outsourcers
The top 10 H-1B list explains why Trump wants to change the visa lottery
Trump's ban becomes an H-1B fight
It's not the number of H-1B visa holders from banned countries that is driving this challenge
RStudio's new enterprise platform moves out of beta
On the eve of its annual user conference, RStudio announced that its RStudio Connect publishing platform is out of beta and available for a free 45-day evaluation.
First look: IBM's Watson Analytics comes to the iPad
The app is designed for quick data discovery on the go but has some omissions compared to the web version
Sisense brings its analytics platform to chat bots
Users can ask natural-language questions about their data while in Slack, Skype, and Facebook Messenger
Trump's 'extreme' anti-terrorism vetting may be H-1B nightmare
Many people from 'dangerous and volatile regions' work in the U.S. on H-1B visas, and Trump's plan would penalize these workers because of their birthplace.
The advanced beginner's guide to R
So you’ve gone through the Beginner’s Guide to R and want to take the next steps in your R journey? In this advanced beginner’s guide, you’ll learn data wrangling, best packages to use for different tasks, how to make maps with R and...
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